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Rebuy – No
tollot-beaut 2004 savigny 1er champ-chevrey
Always a favourite cuvée of mine, but that’s not quite enough to overcome the vintage imperfection – not yet anyway.
2004 Tollot-Beaut, Savigny-lès-Beaune 1er Champ-Chevery
Medium colour. A clear, if not stomach churning, vintage character, below is a deep, dark and slightly sweet fruit base. The combination of acidity and faintly astringent tannin [...]
lambrays 2004 morey st.denis les loups
My first 2004 for a while – I have another to try but I think that this will be a short campaign.
2004 Lambrays, Morey St.Denis 1er Les Loups
Medium colour. The nose is heavy with the volatile 2004 taint, below is an interesting coffee edge though I can’t quite get to the fruit. [...]
1999 morey-blanc meursault (yuk!)
1999 Morey-Blanc, Meursault
Inspecting the half-bottle, there’s some very fine sediment at the base and the wine is not perfectly bright. Under the capsule it is completely black, it looks like you could plant potatoes! The cork comes out and has pink and blue lines down it, the dark coloured wine is – [...]
white wines with a red nose…
Impressed with my dexterity in Photoshop? Actually it is just a moody (blurred!) image from my phone…
Only a few days after a day-trip to Mürren we find ourselves in Klosters – well it is the season! Mainly blue sky, but getting a little warm with sticky snow by lunchtime – good for delivering the [...]
côtes + antonin guyon 2000 corton-charlemagne
Friday was a day in the Côtes – and pretty cold it was too! White (mainly) fluffy stuff was hitting the car and ground for 99% of the journey to Beaune, but 5km from the Beaune exit and the snow was gone – unfortunately rain prevailed – still I wasn’t going to be walking [...]
